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Case study of a non-denominational Evangelical Korean mission society in the U.S.A. Responding to Korea's relationship to its "big brother," U.S.A., the missionaries sought to "make history" by saving the U.S. from secularization. After the founder's death, the missionary society began to Americanize.

Selective migration made Korean migrants to the U.S.A. disproportionately Christian. Conversion to conservative churches helped migrants cope with their experience, increasing the Christian presence. 2nd generation Korean Americans have their own congregations. There are Korean Christian missionaries to the U.S.A.

Catholic sisters from Canada established relationships with their Chinese immigrant patients in Manilla & converted some, but the conversions carried Chinese folk religion into the cult of the Virgin Mary.

Korean missionaries: Preaching the gospel to "all nations," including the United States. Kim, Rebecca Y. (2013) In Afe Adogame and Shobana Shankar (eds.) Religion on the Move! New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World. Leiden: Brill, pp. 179-202.

Conversion and Mission: Missionary Insertion and the Social Conditions of Christianization. Turcotte, Paul-André (2009) In Guiseppe Giordan (ed.) Conversion in the Age of Pluralism. Leiden: Brill, pp. 309-328.

Based on ethnographic data on Mormon missionaries in New Jersey. While most denominations maintain vitality with decentralization, the Mormon church hinders its missionary effectiveness through over-centralization.

Creating the Moral Body: Missionaries and the Technology of Power in Early Papua New Guinea.Fife, Wayne (2001) Ethnology 40: 251-269.

Associated Search Terms: Historical; Missionary; Papua-New Guinea

Irish Priests and American Catholicism: A Match Made in Heaven.Smith, William L. (1998) Research in the Social scientific Study of Religion 9: 49-73.

Overview of the scholarly literature and primary information on Irish Catholic clergy ministering in the U.S.A.

Associated Search Terms: Catholic, U.S.A.; Clergy; Missionary; Irish

The Spirit and the Scapular: Pentecostal and Catholic interactions in norhtern Nyanga District, Zimbabwe in the 1950s and 1960s. Maxwell, David J. (1997) Journal of Southern African Studies 23:2: 283-300.

Observes that 19th century Christian missionaries in Madagascar had a good ethnographic awareness, but because of their imposition of Christian/non-Christian categories they could not understand all that they had observed.

Associated Search Terms: Methodology; Malagasy; Missionary

The impact of Vatican II on the Marists in Oceania. Arbuckle, Gerald A. (1978) In James A. Boutilier, Daniel T. Hughes, and Sharon W. Tiffany (eds.) Mission, Church and Sect in Oceania. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 275-299.

The Making of Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century: Conversion and Convention.Potter, Sarah (1975) In Michael Hill (ed.) A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain 8. London: SCM Press, pp. 103-124.

Historical sociology of the English mission societies in the 19th century.

Associated Search Terms: Conversion; Missionary; Historical

The Circulation of the Saints: A Study of People Who Join Conservative Churches.Bibby, Reginald W., and Merlin B. Brinkerhoff (1973) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12:3: 273-283. [Also in Stewart Crysdale and Les Wheatcroft (eds.), Religion in Canadian Society (Toronto: Macmilan of Canada, 1976), pp. 346-358]

Analyzes 1966-70 survey data from 20 Evangelical churches in a western Canadian city.